CFP: The Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America **NEW LOCATION**

The Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America will be held at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, October 17–October 19, 2025. In person attendance is strongly preferable. But for this conference we wish to offer the opportunity to participate online, especially for participants from outside the US.

Papers on any aspect of Leibniz’s philosophy will be considered. Proposals that explore connections between Leibniz’s thought and other non-canonical early modern philosophers, especially women, are particularly welcome. Papers on figures within the loosely Leibnizian orbit, including (but not limited to) Masham, Conway, Wolff, Du Châtelet, etc., will also be considered.

Presentations should have a reading time of approximately 45 minutes. Commentators will be paired with accepted submissions.

Our keynote speakers will be Julia Borcherding (University of Cambridge) and Andrew Janiak (Duke University). Borcherding’s talk is tentatively titled Missed Connections: Leibniz and the “English Ladies”. Janiak’s talk is titled The Vis Viva Debate in Leibniz, Clarke and Du Châtelet.

Submissions from graduate students and early career scholars will be given special consideration. The LSNA may be able to offer some travel funding to speakers in these categories who do not have sufficient funding from their home institutions, in order to defray the costs of attending the meeting.

Submissions should take the form of abstracts of approx. 500 words, prepared for anonymous review. They should be submitted, as attachments to emails in PDF format, to Stephen Puryear ([email protected]). The deadline for receipt of submissions is June 1, 2025. Authors will be notified by June 15 of the program committee’s decision. Selected authors will be expected to send complete drafts of their presentations to their commentators by September 1, 2025.